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We want to enable others to reproduce the exact distribution archives we are serving on go.dev/dl. Today the code for building those archives lives in golang.org/x/build, which is fundamentally tied to running on the Go team build infrastructure and not easy for others to run. This CL adds a new flag -distpack to cmd/dist, usually invoked as make.bash -distpack, to build the distribution archives using code in the main repository that anyone can run. Starting in Go 1.21, the Go team build infrastructure will run this instead of its current custom code to build those archives. The current builds are not reproducible even given identical infrastructure, because the archives are stamped with the current time. It is helpful to have a timestamp in the archives indicating when the code is from, but that time needs to be reproducible. To ensure this, the new -distpack flag extends the VERSION file to include a time stamp, which it uses as the modification time for all files in the archive. The new -distpack flag is implemented by a separate program, cmd/distpack, instead of being in cmd/dist, so that it can be compiled by the toolchain being distributed and not the bootstrap toolchain. Otherwise details like the exact compression algorithms might vary from one bootstrap toolchain to another and produce non-reproducible builds. So there is a new 'go tool distpack', but it's omitted from the distributions themselves, just as 'go tool dist' is. make.bash already accepts any flags for cmd/dist, including -distpack. make.bat is less sophisticated and looks for each known flag, so this CL adds an update to look for -distpack. The CL also changes make.bat to accept the idiomatic Go -flagname in addition to the non-idiomatic (for Go) --flagname. Previously it insisted on the --flag form. I have confirmed that using make.bash -distpack produces the identical distribution archives for windows/amd64, linux/amd64, darwin/amd64, and darwin/arm64 whether it is run on windows/amd64, linux/amd64, or darwin/amd64 hosts. For #24904. Change-Id: Ie6d69365ee3d7294d05b4f96ffb9159b41918074 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/470676 TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Heschi Kreinick <heschi@google.com> Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Carlos Amedee <amedee@google.com> |
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